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Society RSS FeedsBuild Your Own Notebook -- Really, You Build It - OCZ Technology has announced a new spin on an old product: the build-it-yourself notebook PC. Yes, you really do build it yourself According to a report in ExtremeTech, OCZ's DIY Gaming Notebook (part number OCZNBIAS15DIYA on the company's Web site) includes the basics: a 15.4-inch WXGA display, an Intel PM965 chipset, an Nvidia GeForce 8600MGT/512 Mbyte video card and an 8X DVD±R/RW combo drive capable of reading and writing four-lay...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com Touch-Screen BlackBerry Coming!? -
According to reports in today's Wall Street Journal and on CNBC, pesky Research In Motion (RIM) plans to introduce a touch-screen version of its BlackBerry to thwart the challenge posed by the popularity of Apple's iPhone. (And no wonder we are seeing so many RIM TV ads )
Apparently dubbed the Thunder, the new BlackBerry is among RIM's strongest moves so far to appeal to the increasing number of consumers jumping for multimedia phones, a marke... Nintendo Wii Outsells Them All! -
Researchers extraordaire NPD has just released its gaming console sales numbers for April and guess what? Nintendo took the number one and two slots in hardware sales, with the Wiihaving sold 714,200 units while the Nintendo DS sold 414,800 units. Third place went to the PSP with 192,700 units. These are staggering numbers and underscore the life in the gaming market, even in tougher economic times.
And while these numbers may be impressive,... SIP-based VoIP Wake Up Call Service - The beauty of VoIP and the corresponding SIP standard is the ease at which applications can be developed. Today, I learned about a wake-up-call service on www.sipservices.gr that leverages the SIP standard to allow you to schedule wake-up-calls. The software app called “Wake up Easy Voip Service” simply registers as a SIP extension to your existing SIP-based IP-PBX, waits for inbound extension calls, plays a prompt, you enter your wak... Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Rumors - I've heard from various sources about Office Communications Server 2007 R2 coming soon. I'm a member of the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 MVP team, so I'm privy to information that I cannot divulge at this moment due to NDA requirements. In fact, I hadn't planned on blogging this at all had I not come across a few posts online talking about OCS 2007 R2. Other sources outside the Microsoft MVP community were also asking me if I knew ... New Jawbone headset is sexy - The new Jawbone, made by Aliph, is 50% smaller than the original Jawbone. This Gen 2 Jawbone Bluetooth headset enhances the original Jawbone's claim-to-fame capability - namely its superb ability to suppress background noise.
Here's some more pics of this sexy Bluetooth headset:
... Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000 - Microsoft launched a webcam called the Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000 that "literally bends over backwards for you." Or at least, that's what Microsoft says.
Somehow picturing a webcam and bending over backwards sounds a wee bit pornographic is you ask me. That is until I found out what the fuss was all about. The LifeCam VX-5000 lets you "bend" its shape. The bendable attachment base that molds to virtually any surface so it can ... Can You Believe It? One Fifth of U.S. Households Have Never Used Email! - Because we are so, so connected, we think everybody else is too But a new survey finds a substantial number of households have not crossed the "Digital Divide."
According to National Technology Scan, a forthcoming study from Parks Associates (an annual phone survey of U.S. households) found 20 million households are without Internet access, representing approximately 18% of all U.S. households.
According to Parks Associates, nearly one out ... A New Way to Stargaze via the WorldWide Telescope -
Maybe it's time to get a new telescope or upgrade for the future in another way?
According to a report in today's New York Times, the skies may be the next frontier in travel, but not even the wealthiest space tourist can zoom out to, say, the Crab Nebula, the Trapezium Cluster or Eta Carinae, a star 100 times more massive than the Sun and 7,500 light-years away.
But those far, far away places and thousands of others can now be toured and explor... Movable Type 4.15 beta 2 - I've been testing Movable Type 4.15 beta1 for a few weeks now with plans to migrate from Movable Type 3.33 to 4.15 when the product finally launches. According to the Movable Type roadmap wiki, the final non-beta version will launch in 6 days. Well, technically it says "Target Release Date: May 19ish" so they're leaving some wiggle room. Regardless, I'm pretty excited about the pending launch. There are essentially three version of Mova... Dell Goes More Seriously after Gamers -
Surprising to some, but Dell is abandoning several of its most popular models to focus on its premium line of specialty gaming personal computers.
Not too surprising to some, Dell had to do something to juice up its chances after falling to the No. 2 spot in PC sales behind HP. (Doesn't No. 2 always try harder?)
Looks like Alienware may be invading a home near you sometime soon And we all know those higher-end innovations do participate in the... Druid 1.2.0-3 Launches - Today, Druid 1.2.0-3, an open source Asterisk-based solution was launched. (Check out my full review of the Asterisk-based Druid platform for some background.) Here's a screenshot of their web-based front-end that makes it easy to manage their version of Asterisk:
Vikram Rangnekar from Druid shot me off an email saying they have some great new features in Druid. Figured I'd share some important excerpts of his email that explain the news:
In ... VonagePro for Business - It appears that Vonage is looking for a Director of Product Management for VonagePro, a service I had never heard of until today. I just happened to notice the VonagePro job listing on Monster.com. Hmm - "Requires bachelor's degree in computer science or electrical engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience." I've got those credentials! Just don't tell my boss I was surfing Monster.com.
Truth be told... CNET's Tech Tips Can't Be Beat -
So many tech sites and so little time!
With that in mind, I've always found CNET to be very useful, especially for its handy Tips & Tricks. In fact, it's usually my first stop when I've got to figure something out and don't already have that knowledge stored somewhere (usually in my own unique personal storage device -- my head).
Take a look at their latest Top 5 list, which includes:
* Moving your iTunes library from PC to Mac
* Quick home-thea... Garmin's Nuvi 350 Is the Way to Go! -
I've had the great pleasure to try out the sleek, portable nüvi 350 from Garmin for a while now. It takes GPS into a wider world than just GPS navigation, offering an all-in-one traveler’s reference and digital entertainment system . It's really a pocket-sized personal travel assistant, and it's rechargeable lithium-ion battery makes it convenient for navigation by car or foot.
The nüvi 350 comes ready to go right out of th... So What Did Mom Get? -
Now that Mother's Day has come and gone -- and I hope it was a happy day for all! -- curious to know what gadget mom got?
You mean you stuck with flowers and candy?!
We went for a new cell phone -- Moto RAZR -- and a new service since AT&T is just so bad! And we also went for cards, flowers, candy, dinner, etc., too! (Thanks to Mothersdaycentral for the image.)
Now I want to know about you? What did you do? Did you make Mother's Day Gadget Day?
... Apple Pays Up Over Battery Woes -
Apple has agreed to pay refunds of $25 to $79 to more than 2 million Mac owners to resolve claims that some of its power adapters were prone to spark.
Nice to see cash actually going to the consumers who suffered through this, not to the lawyers who brought the suit. We've all been there before, eh?
The 2006 class-action suit alleged that Apple misrepresented problems with the power adapters. In 2001, Apple recalled about 570,000 adapters so... AT&T Can't Make Up Its Mind -
What's a major telco to do when it can't make up its mind?
Put things on the website one day and then remove them the next?
Here ya go? AT&T has flip-flopped again on whether iPhone customers can get free access to AT&T hotspots.
Yesterday, the iPhone plans page on the AT&T web site clearly stated that access to the hotspots was included with all plans (didn't I just blog about this?), but now that statement has disappeared.
Now if they co... Amazon offers Click-To-Call Ordering - I was on Amazon.com looking for a Garmin GPS when I noticed I had the ability to click "Call me" to order stuff from Amazon. Interesting. Curious, I clicked the Call me button and saw this:
As seen above, it appears eStara is powering Amazon's Click-to-Call capabilities. Now I realize this isn't new "news" since the WSJ wrote about Amazon using eStara awhile back. However, in all of my Amazon shopping I've never come across ... Blackberry 9000 Is Coming Next Week! -
Exciting news for all Blackberry fans -- seems like the highly touted 9000 is due to be announced May 12!
Take a look at The Boy Genius here (thanks for the photo!) for a bit more and here at Crackberry for a three-part review of the little beauty.
Tags: Blackberry 9000, Crackberry, The Boy Genius
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... HP Goes Upline -
Do we really need another online storage company?
Apparently, HP thinks so and has launched Upline, a data storage service that lets you put your data in a more secure, online headquarters location.
As we should have learned by now, automatic backup makes securing data simple, not just one time, but as often as you choose. And with any Internet connection you can easily access, share, manipulate and store your data from anywhere.
Three plans ... AT&T To Give iPhone Wi-Fi Hotspot Access? -
We can never get enough iPhone news or juicy rumors, so here we go again!
According to MacRumors, AT&T's iPhone website (under the Plans tab) has been updated to note that each iPhone plan now includes access to their "more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, including Starbucks all for use in the U.S."
Not officially announced, but then again
Read more about it here.
Tags: AT&T, iPhone, MacRumors, ... New Dell Notebooks Coming? -
The steady pace of computer technology marches on
According to a report on Engadget (here), Dell is set to launch a series of new Inspiron notebooks.
Having had an Inspiron 700m for what sees like ages now, feel good that Dell is coming off of its battery woes, but only time (and the gadget-buying public) will prove that right
And that may be soon, with the first one apparently coming right around Memorial Day.
Tags: Dell, Inspir... SkyFire Review - Rich Tehrani has a great review on the SkyFire browser that gives Windows Mobile devices the Apple iPhone browsing experience. Well, not quite, but definitely much better than the built-in Windows Mobile browser. It supports easy zooming, Flash support, videos (including YouTube videos) and more. Rich was getting so frustrated with the crappy Windows Mobile browser that he even weighed the pros and cons of switching to the Apple iPhone from ... Jangl & TalkPlus Spell VoIP Troubles Ahead? - Om over at GigaOm writes that Jangl was looking to sell itself earlier this week and is "headed towards an ignominious end" and adds that Talkplus "is going nowhere fast". I wrote a detailed write-up on TalkPlus, interviewing TalkPlus CEO Jeff Black at ITEXPO and my biggest fascination was how the supposedly reverse engineered Skype. I wrote, "One final interesting thing we talked about at ITEXPO is that TalkPlus has buil... Covad Vonage Deal Redux - I was emailing industry analyst Jon Arnold about some things and mentioned I quoted him in my post this morning about the Covad & Vonage partnership and the resulting product offering called/branded "Vonage Broadband" and soon to be carried by Covad.
He wrote back with some interesting insights of his own regarding the deal and wonders if it's a good move or one of desperation. That thought had crossed my mind as well and I nearly ... South Korea Blocks VoIP - here we go again... - Do you recall my 2006 post about South Korea wanting to ban VoIP, which would also include U.S. military bases and military personnel serving in South Korea? Well, according to today's Vonage Form thread it appears South Korea has taken a playbook from the Great Firewall of China and is now blocking U.S. military personnel from making inexpensive VoIP calls back to the U.S.
The Vonage forum thread was started by a U.S. Air Force serviceman claim... Covad to offer Vonage Broadband - Vonage and Covad Communications today announced a strategic relationship which will enable Vonage to provide its customers with a broadband solution using Covad’s nationwide DSL network. The new service, called Vonage Broadband, is expected to be offered to new and existing customers by the end of the year.
This is interesting, since Covad's strength has always been in offering business VoIP services not residential. Though, I should point... Real iPhone Competition? -
High Tech Computer, a little-known but fast-growing Taiwanese gadget maker, has unveiled a its Touch Diamond, a touch-screen smart phone that is the latest product in its surprisingly (so far) successful effort to compete against Apple's iPhone.
Unveiled in London with plans for European sales next month, this follows the Touch, which has sold well since its launch last June, a few weeks before the iPhone launch.
Plans are for the phone to be av... Last doomsday cult members leave cave in Russia after authorities find 2 rotting corpses - The nine were the last of a group of 35 men, women and children that had dug into a hillside near the Volga region town of Penza in November and threatened to blow themselves up with gas canisters if authorities tried to remove them. [video]... American preacher: How I helped Irish woman commit suicide - An American preacher who admitted assisting a Dublin woman commit suicide has described how he helped take her own life by giving her drugs and putting a bag over her head.... Judge won?t free family of polygamist sect member - Dan Jessop said he won a partial victory, though, when lawyers for Child Protective Services told a judge that CPS workers would try by Thursday evening to place his wife, their newborn son and two other very young children together in a foster home, possibly in San Antonio.... The Virgin Mary?s place in the Kern County sun - Twenty years after a woman said the Virgin Mary appeared to her, hundreds still attend Our Lady of the Rock gatherings in the Mojave. Despite disavowal by the church, followers say they draw comfort.... Polygamist Sect?s Finances Are Murky - Questions about the source of the sect's money have been swirling around the FLDS since Texas authorities raided their Yearning for Zion ranch last month and seized more than 460 youngsters because of evidence that the sect has been marrying off underage girls to older men.... Church disowns activist bishop - Australia's bishops have released a public statement suggesting that Bishop Robinson is wrong about the authority of Christ and the authority of the church to "teach the truth".... Polygamous sect buying land in 2 Colorado counties - In the past two years, a senior aide to Jeffs has purchased three properties in Custer County, near the town of Westcliffe.... Polygamist sect couple allowed to visit their children - It was unclear if the judge based his decision on the Jessops' arguments that they are in a monogamous marriage, but others are making the same argument.... All Russian doomsday sect members leave dugout - Earlier Friday, rescuers and police completed an operation to bring to the surface the bodies of two deceased sect members. "As we pulled out the dead bodies, we suggested the others leave. They agreed," Vladimir Provotorov said. [video]... ?Sex Cult? Pastor Arrested in Texas - In an interview for "20/20," Hawkins' former wife Kay says he began to preach polygamy after he was caught having an affair with a church secretary. "He began to rewrite the Scriptures," she said. "Any Scripture that did not go along with more than one wife was rewritten to imply that it was all right to have more than one wife."... Copyright © 2008, Real Estate Investment Tips. All Rights Reserved. |